out of curiosity how does reclaiming go in an ideal situation in the case of the n word it seems like it was the black community using it as an attack on community members bringing down the reputation of the community as a whole while the word was simultaneously shunned by every other race and deemed unacceptable for use in this way it was never reclaimed as a positive word so how does faggot get reclaimed i say drop it from the vocabulary same with dyke